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Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. (Quote by - Leo Rosten)
Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. (Quote by - J B Priestley)
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy(Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained. (Quote by - David Soul)
The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen. (Quote by - Milan Kundera)
Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other. (Quote by - Mary Ashton Livermore)
I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. (Quote by - Vincent van Gogh)
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the ''disenchantment of the world.'' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental. (Quote by - Max Weber)
If we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze. (Quote by - Forrest Gump)
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. (Quote by - Arthur Miller)
This appears to be a very tragic, accidental death. (Quote by - Gary Davidson)
We believe it was self- inflicted, however, we have not determined whether it was intentional or accidental. (Quote by - Wayne Shelor)
Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. (Quote by - Vincent van Gogh)
It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues. (Quote by - Eve Ensler)